Falling Meteorites Testing

Falling Meteorites

Background and Goals

According to the background of this game which is the character needs to avoid several obstacles and enemies to get back home on doomsday (alien invasion). In Sprint 2, we add a new obstacle 'Falling meteorites'. This test will test the users' satisfaction of the animation of falling meteorites and help us improve our model.

Process

To conduct our user testing we did the following:

• We invited users to have a look of the falling meteorites
• We let them play the game and record the observations of interacting with falling meteorites
• We designed 4 questions for interviewing the users
• Collect and reorganize the users' feedback and suggestion

Key questions

• What's your thoughts about the falling meteorites?
• What did you like/dislike about the falling meteorites?
• Do you have any questions about the animation and model of obstacles?
• Do you have any suggestions for us to improve the design?

Results

User 1:

• Thoughts:

  • The design and the animation of obstacles is good

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：The style of obstackles is amazing. And the speed reduction effect is obvious which increases the difficulty of the game
  • Disliked: The obstacles are too many, sometimes obstacles will be generated at the river, it is difficult to jump over.

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • Modify the randomness of obstacle generation.
  • Add more types of obstacles.
  • Can add obstacles that will actively attack the character within a certain range.

User 2:

• Observations:

  • Users quickly get started without a tutorial, but don't know what the purpose of the game is.
  • Users feel that the obstacles are a bit small.

• Thoughts:

  • The animation looks good.

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：The design of obstacles.
  • Disliked: Too less types of obstacles.

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • Add more debuffs.
  • Add more kinds of obstacles like ufos in the sky.
  • Have a hint for different kinds of obstacles.

User 3:

• Observations:

  • Users didn’t understand the role of obstacles very well at first.
  • The user seems to like the appearance of the obstacle.

• Thoughts:

  • Users feel that the appearance of obstacles is very cool.
  • Obstacles have less effect.
  • Hope more other effects and obstacles.

• Likes/Dislikes:

  • Liked：The trigger animation of the obstacle looks good
  • Disliked: Obstacles have less effect.

• General Comments/Suggestions:

  • Add more effects.
  • Add more types of obstacles.
  • Add tutorial.

Summary

Most participants are able to play the game smoothly, but there will be some users who are not sure about the role of obstacles, and they are not sure what to do when they encounter obstacles. As one participant suggested, it might be useful to add a tutorial.

Almost all participants liked the obstacle design and animation. However, there are only two types of obstacles currently completed, and we should continue to add more types of obstacles.

As more than one participant mentioned in their responses, the current obstacles have only a few effects-slowing down and reducing blood. They hope to add more effects to increase the difficulty of the game.